Sudan’s conflict described as the war
the world forgot civilians caught up in
the country’s Civil War have shared
graphic accounts to the BBC of rape
ethnic violence and Street executions at
the hands of the paramilitary group The
rsf we’ll shortly show you some
firsthand testimonies but before that
top United Nations officials met today
saying the war has plunged the country
into one of the worst humanitarian
nightmares in recent history the UN
special rapporter spoke to to the BBC
earlier and gave us this assessment that
it is the last largest as well as the
fastest displacement crisis in the world
today the needs are staggering and they
continue to rise and all the positive
indicators food Security Access to
Health Care reproductive Health we see
these rapidly declining and what we see
are negative indicators Mal nutrition uh
Child Protection issues access to health
and Rising food inse security these
negative indicators on the rise since
April last year Sudan’s been torn apart
by fighting between these two men one
heads up the country’s military General
Abdul Fat Al Bahan and the other is his
former Ally General Muhammad hamdan
dougo he leads a paramilitary group as
we mentioned before it’s called the
rapid support forces or the rsf and
together they took power in
2019 the power sharing agreement that’s
resulted has has now broken down and
it’s led to Fierce fighting now within
Sudan lies another humanitarian crisis
in the western region of Dar 4 where the
rsf is accused of targeting and killing
non-arabs and there have been reports of
hundreds of deaths the rsf have
repeatedly denied any involvement in the
violence in the region and they’ve
called for an independent International
investigation the UN says that with 8.1
million people forcibly displaced and
tens of thousands killed these could
trigger the world’s largest hunger
crisis well the BBC’s uncovered
harrowing evidence of the violence
experienced by women in that ongoing
conflict in Sudan the BBC’s Mercy jumer
reports from the Chad Sudan Border in
adre and there’s a warning that some
viewers may find Details in this report
distressing yesterday 19-year-old Amina
found out that she is pregnant within
minutes she will begin an abortion
desperately hoping that her family never
knows it happened in Sudan I’m not
married and I was a virgin except for
the incident that happened this young
woman whose name we have changed was
trying to flee fighting in her hometown
when she was captured held for a day and
repeatedly
repped I didn’t tell anyone and I don’t
think anyone
knows the UN says the sexual violence
experienced by women like Amina is a
defining character istic of the conflict
in Sudan and has been used as a weapon
of
War Amina is one of more than 600,000
people who have fled Sudan for camps
like these one in neighboring Chad she
was helped by the international charity
Med sasan
Frontiers but other voluntary groups
have also sprung up to support the large
number of women who have been affected
by either physical violence or sexual
attacks it’s a side of the conflict
that’s not often seen but we have been
given privileged access to join this
group and film a meeting run by
zah mariamu is a former University
student who has been speaking to
Zahra she was attacked by armed men in
her home in Sudan when she called for
help they fired a bullet inches away
from her mother as she tried to stop
what was
happening Zahara spends time with me at
she talks to me she says what happened
to you happened to a lot of people and
you must be strong and
positive women have been victims of
violence across Sudan during the Civil
War the fighting has also seen a
Resurgence of a bloody ethnic conflict
20 years ago the UN says 300,000 members
of the black African Community were
killed in the Dau region amidst
accusations of
genocide much of the violence against
women in Sudan during the current
conflict has been blamed on the rapid
support forces and his allies in a
chilling online video One prominent
member sets out why he feels Fighters
have the right to assault
women come on as for raping or not
raping if we rape your daughter or your
girl it’s an eye for an eye this is our
country and this is our right and we
took it the rapid support forces told us
the majority of accusations against it
are untrue but its troops are held
accountable when incidents occur but
Zahra says black African women are being
targeted in
D this is because rape leaves an impact
on society and the family they used it
as a weapon of
Revenge with this conflict cases of
sexual violence are widespread but this
is a taboo topic here and comes with a
lot of Shame and stigma this means that
those who peek out or seek medical
attention are only a fraction of those
who are
affected ordinary women are paying the
price for the brutality which has been
Unleashed by the conflict in Sudan with
no end in sight many more people could
end up suffering in silence Mari Juma
BBC news on the Chad Sudan border
